Last fall the Houston Press asked readers to send in nominations of people who were breaking new ground in the arts around here.The lucky winners have been named and will be getting a $2,000 check at a dinner Saturday and -- perhaps more importantly -- they are profiled in the Press today. (Well, maybe the check is a bigger deal.)It's all a part of the Press' Artopia bash, dedicated to food, booze, art and fashion.Who are the MasterMinds? A husband/wife team of visual artists, a group of high s
Fotofest's The Art of Social Media: A Conversation on Media Collision, taking place Wednesday night at 6 p.m., promises to be informative and entertaining on more than one level. Part of the title, Media Collision, sounds pretty entertaining by itself, conjuring up visions of MySpace, Facebook and Twitter crashing full-speed into each other in some other spatial dimension.The "happy hour lecture", designed to help artists tame the wild west of social media sites and harness their advertising po
